Dortmund Final: Adams emerges victorious

8/4/2013 – Adams came in determined to not let Kramnik have a fighting chance at taking the title away from him. He did so successfully by forcing Kramnik into a repetition very early on in the game, sealing the draw and the victory for Adams with an amazing 2923 performance. Second was Kramnik with an also superb 2866. Leko and Naiditsch tied for third. Final round report.

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The Dortmund GM tournament is a ten-player round robin with six international
stars and four German grandmasters. Top seed is Italian GM Fabiano Caruana,
rated 2796 and ranked number three in the world, while "local boy"
former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, who has won this event no less than
ten times (Caruana won it last year).

Final report

Round 09 – Sunday, August 4 2013

Dmitri Andrejkin

2727

½-½

Peter Leko

2737

Fabiano Caruana

2796

1-0

Daniel Fridman

2629

Michael Adams

2740

½-½

Vladimir Kramnik

2784

Wang Hao

2752

1-0

Georg Meier

2610

Arkadij Naiditsch

2710

1-0

Igor Khenkin

2605

Andrejkin, Dmitri - Leko, Peter ½-½Andrejkin repeated the line that Leko has defended multiple times. This game followed closely the Topalov-Aronian Nimzo from the Norway Masters tournament in May. That game was a draw, and here too Leko had no problems at all holding to half a point.

Naiditsch, Arkadij - Khenkin, Igor 1-0 Naiditsch played a precise and crushing game today against Khenkin. He emerged better from the opening and never let his opponent back in the game. The combination of queenside and kingside pressure was simply too much for his opponent to handle. Black's only plus was a protected passed pawn, but it was so tightly guarded with the strong blockade on d4 that it never played a role.

Wang Hao - Meier, Georg 1-0Wang Hao played another unambitious opening that was to his liking. It isn't entirely clear where Meier lost his way but eventually, around move 40, White obtained a pleasant advantage with his pair of bishops giving Black too many problems in holding his structure. The Chinese player kept pressing his advantage forward, but he committed a grave mistake with 57.Be6? Black could have replied 57...Kf6! when White's win would have been far from easy, instead he played the lesser move 57...Bd6 and Wang Hao from then on converted gracefully.

Adams, Michael - Kramnik, Vladimir ½-½Kramnik showed that he was in a fighting spirit today, not only opening with a Sicilian but following it up with a potentially hyper-accelerated dragon. Adams was in no mood for such foolishness and he used a clever move order to force Kramnik into a little known c3 Sicilian. As soon as move ten Adams was able to force Kramnik to repeat moves or lose the game, and with that Adams takes the tournament.

Caruana, Fabiano - Fridman, Daniel 1-0This game is very hard to describe. Fridman chose a variation that gives White a piece for two pawns, but it is not so easy from a practical point of view to convert this material advantage. What happened in the game was both players playing relatively planless for the majority of the game. The game seemed to be going just fine for Black who secured another pawn along the way. However his king was somewhat shaky and needed consistent attention. White's attack with his powerful knights eventually broke through and forced Black to exchange into a lost endgame, in which White's rook was much more powerful than Black's three passed pawns.

Born in 1975 in Tuapse on the shores of the Black Sea, Vladimir Kramnik
studied at the Botvinnik-Kasparov chess school. At 16 he was included in
the Russian Olympiad team and scored a sensational 8.5/9, the best result
at the Olympiad. After that followed a string of great tournament results,
culminating in a world championship challenge. In 2000 Kramnik played the
chess legend Garry Kasparov and beat him to take the title, which he successfully
defended in 2004 against Peter Leko and 2006 against FIDE champion Veselin
Topalov, whom he defeated to take the unified world championship title.

On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy
to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first
successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the
Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former
mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov. Kramnik dissects his wins against Leko
and Topalov, giving us a vivid impression of the super-dramatic final games
of the 2006 match. His commentary is full of useful advice and provides
a fascinating insight into the thought processes that govern top level play.

The DVD contains more than six hours of video with narrative and game analysis.
There are also five additional segments from an exclusive video interview
on the intrigues that surrounded the 2006 world championship, and on the
state of the chess world in general.

Albert SilverBorn in the US, he grew up in Paris, France, where he completed his Baccalaureat, and after college moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He had a peak rating of 2240 FIDE, and was a key designer of Chess Assistant 6. In 2010 he joined the ChessBase family as an editor and writer at ChessBase News. He is also a passionate photographer with work appearing in numerous publications.

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